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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
Alfred Adler
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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
History
Souls
Seducing
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Bloodshed
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It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
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Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
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To be human means to feel inferior.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority and you must deal with him from that point of view.
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Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted.
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